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...Guttmacher Institute, a research nonprofit that focuses on reproductive health, surveyed 947 women between the ages of 18 and 34 who have household incomes under $75,000. More than 4 in 10 said the economy was affecting their decision about having children. The women reported waiting to get pregnant later than they had planned, deciding to have fewer children or opting for medical sterilization to prevent future pregnancies. A majority of the women surveyed (52%) said their financial situation had worsened in the past year, and they were most likely to make their family-planning decisions on the basis...
...series of violent crimes in Boston this weekend left two dead—including a pregnant teenager—and seven injured, with four wounded after a fight involving a machete, the Boston Herald reported. However, conversations with a number of students indicate that Harvard undergraduates remain largely unconcerned. most say they remain unaware of the weekend’s burst of violent crime. “I didn’t hear anything,” Matthew C. Plaks ’13 said. One student, Lukas Strnad ’10, was unfazed upon hearing of the incidents...
...Here comes the first asterisk: nearly half the country - pregnant women, children and everyone with asthma, diabetes, heart disease or kidney disease - will face a higher risk of getting seriously sick...
...took on a new dimension of seriousness Sept. 19, when the film Winfrey is producing took the festival's top award. Lee Daniels' Precious (based on the novel Push by Sapphire), the story of an illiterate black teen in 1980s Harlem who is both abused by her mother and pregnant with a second child by her father, was honored with Toronto's coveted audience award, following in the wake of last year's Toronto-to-Oscar champion Slumdog Millionaire. It was only the latest in a long line of victories for Precious. At the Sundance Film Festival in January...
...from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, although the first shipment will be earmarked for high-risk groups and is not expected until October, said UHS director David S. Rosenthal ’59. Of the vaccine ordered, 2,000 to 3,000 doses are specifically for groups including pregnant women, emergency medical services personnel, and people between the ages of 5 and 24 with chronic health conditions, according to Rosenthal. UHS has a list of those people within the University who are high-risk and who will receive the H1N1 vaccine first. The state has already begun production...